Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Charles Dickens

Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.

Charles Dickens

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Charles Caleb Colton

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Charles Dickens

"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."

Alanis Morissette

These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends.

Alanis Morissette

You are a worksmith and who cares for his brothers, whos not seduced by illusions or fair weather friends.

Alan Watts

If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic.

Charles Caleb Colton

That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.

Edward Gibbon

The fortune of nations has often depended on accidents . . .

Carlos Fuentes

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

Charles de Gaulle

It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.

Belle Boyd

Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.

Jamal Lewis

Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on Sunday.

Thomas Middleditch

I've had the fortune of meeting most of the 'Kids in the Hall.' One meeting was special in particular because this was before I had gotten anything, before anything was clicking, and I just found myself hanging out with Scott Thompson.

Arthur Helps

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

Dave Edmunds

It was all recorded and mixed and there's more continuity in it more direction.

Jamey Wright

We are a little more comfortable and have a little more continuity than we did at this point last season.

Andrew Friedman

With these young players and the different paces of their maturation processes and with the success we enjoyed in the second half last season, anything can happen. I think there will be improvement over last year and that this will be a very exciting team to watch; the core of that team we expect to have significant continuity for seasons to come.

Jeff Fela

We won the game - and we can improve on it. Continuity is so important on the offensive line. These guys are going to keep getting better.

Jeff Cain

We're looking to get healthy and get all of our kids back. We want to get our continuity going and to do that we need to get everybody back.

Jim Whitaker

We still had a long way to go and it was imperative to retain continuity in our efforts,

Glenn Thiel

We are just trying to fight through some things injury wise. We're just trying to get some continuity in practice.

Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange

I want to be a traditional king first and foremost, building on the tradition of my predecessors standing for continuity and stability in this country, but also a 21st-century king who can unite, represent and encourage society.

Mark Doren

Memory holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life... the companion... the tutor, the poet, the library, with which you travel.